A video posted online by The Mirror appears to show the Conservative MP for Tatton enjoying his summer holiday as he experiments with the heavy weapon, and their Friday front page likened him to Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo from the film series ‘First Blood’.

The jab was obviously a tongue-in-cheek jibe at the left-leaning newspaper’s less than positive coverage of his time in Number 11, but other tweeters weren’t going to let him forget some of their previous front pages.